fbpages-telegram-bot

Introduction

A bot to forward Facebook page updates to a Telegram channel.

This bot is written in Python and uses the python-telegram-bot wrapper for the Telegram Bot API and the facebook-sdk client library for the Facebook Graph API.

Setup

Preparatory Setup

fbpages-telegram-bot uses Python 3 (developed and tested with version 3.6.0), which can be downloaded here if you are running Windows, or by installing the python3 package with your package manager if you're running Linux.

Example for Linux's apt-get:

sudo apt-get install python3 -y

You'll also need the following packages:

• python-telegram-bot
• facebook-sdk
• youtube-dl

These can all be installed with:

pip3 install python-telegram-bot, facebook-sdk, youtube-dl

on both Windows's Command Prompt and Linux's terminal.

Bot Setup

To get started with the bot itself:

1. Message @BotFather on Telegram to create a new bot and get its token.
2. Start a conversation with your new bot and send any message to it. You can go to https://api.telegram.org/bot<BOTID>/getUpdates to find your user_id or chat_id to use in the settings file.
3. Add your newly created bot as an administrator of the channel that will receive the posts.
4. Create a Facebook App and then go to the Graph API Explorer. Choose your new app in the top right corner, and then click on Get Token, Get App Token. The Access Token field will now have the token required for the Facebook section of the settings file.
5. Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/s1cp/fbpages-telegram-bot.git
6. Enter the new directory with cd fbpages-telegram-bot
7. Set the appropriate values in a file called botsettings.ini. Use example.botsettings.ini as an example with cp example.botsettings.ini botsettings.ini && nano botsettings.ini.
8. Run the bot with python3 facebook2telegram.py

Bot configuration values

Facebook section

Name	Description
locale	Facebook locale. Format example: en-US
token	Facebook Graph API token.
pages	List of page IDs. Format example: ['123456789',pageusername']
refreshrate	Time interval between every Facebook check, in seconds.
status	Allow status posts. Format: True or False
photo	Allow photo posts. Format: True or False
video	Allow video posts. Format: True or False
link	Allow link posts. Format: True or False
shared	Allow shared posts. Format: True or False
message	Allow message in posts. Format: True or False

Telegram section

Name	Description
token	Telegram Bot API token.
channel	Username of the channel that will receive the posts
admin	Optional. Bot creator's ID to receive the bot's status.